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Official Site: City of Heroes
Studio: Paragon Studios/NCsoft
Launch Date: April 27, 2004
Sunset Date: November 30, 2012
Homecoming License Date: January 4, 2024
Genre: Superhero Hybrid Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, Mac

Our more specific coverage of the City of Heroes revival is also binned here; you can find the tighter chronology of community rogue server posts right here; regular coverage following the official licensing of the Homecoming servers resumes under the regular City of Heroes tag.

The Stream Team: Celebrating City of Heroes with Paragon Chat costume contests

MJ Guthrie - 17
Never say die! If City of Heroes fans had a motto, this would likely be it. Although they don't have the original game to...
Be here now.

City of Titans lets you call the shots with your powers

Justin Olivetti - 27
Are you ready to handle the awesome responsibility of being able to make your own powers? City of Titans thinks so, which is why...
Wow, positive.

Perfect Ten: The City of Heroes basic Archetypes ranked

Eliot Lefebvre - 41
So it's just about that time again - we're remembering when City of Heroes launched and when it said goodbye. Which is a bit...

Join MOP in Paragon Chat for Friday’s City of Heroes anniversary bash

Bree Royce - 10
Beloved superhero MMORPG City of Heroes turns 13 years old tomorrow, and what better way to celebrate than in Paragon City? That's exactly what...

Valiance Online posts development progress, beefs up backer rewards

Justin Olivetti - 8
How much transparency do you want or demand from your upcoming MMOs? Valiance Online's team assumes that you're on the "quite a bit" end...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has seen the most improved graphics over the years?

Bree Royce - 51
In each of our articles about Black Desert's upcoming graphics upgrade, there have been a slew of comments about how the game doesn't really...

Valiance Online on alpha, Steam, and the character generator of your dreams

Bree Royce - 18
Expect "big changes" in the way Silverhelm Studios handles superhero MMORPG Valiance Online's development going forward, the indie group tells future players and testers in...

One Shots: Screenshots big enough to wallpaper your house

Justin Olivetti - 26
Obviously due to column width limitations, we have a fixed pixel size for screenshots here at Massively OP. But that doesn't stop some of...

Valiance Online is developing stunning special effects

Justin Olivetti - 26
When Valiance Online puts out its next playable alpha build, it may just be the visual effects that will send players jumping up and...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 112: Heroic measures

Justin Olivetti - 6
Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes, Ship of Heroes, SWTOR, Secret World Legends, Black Desert, EVE Fanfest, LOTRO, WoW, and GW2, with reader mail on MMO dress-up and City of Heroes successors.

Jukebox Heroes: Your top six favorite MMO music themes

Justin Olivetti - 6
After over a month of voting and counting down, we've arrived at the final six picks for your favorite MMORPG theme songs of all...

The Daily Grind: What MMO ability makes you feel truly powerful?

Justin Olivetti - 67
A couple of months ago, I received a legendary in World of Warcraft that allowed me to shoot out this gigantic AoE fireball every 90...

City of Heroes-inspired MMORPG Ship of Heroes has canceled its Kickstarter bid

Bree Royce - 66
The team behind Ship of Heroes has just announced that it's canceling its Kickstarter. Since the crowdfund's launch on April 4th, it had raised only $35,138...

Master x Master closed beta begins April 6; signups are open now

Bree Royce - 12
D'awwww, look at that image of City of Heroes' Statesman, scowling down upon all the kids flocking to the Master X Master beta signup...

City of Heroes-inspired Ship of Heroes’ $400,000 Kickstarter is live

Bree Royce - 38
Ship of Heroes has formally launched its Kickstarter today as promised, with a $400,000 ask. The game is an Unreal 4 engine, full-scale MMORPG heavily...
Personalities

City of Titans pontificates on the importance of snug spandex, hints at coming ‘brand makeover’

Justin Olivetti - 22
In the cult classic 1995 film Hackers, one of the characters remarked that "spandex is a privilege, not a right." And how true that...
Sometimes it's about tweaking the right people.

The Daily Grind: Which MMO is the worst for ‘trash pulls’?

Bree Royce - 136
A week or two ago, Blizzard Watch had a post up polling its readers about which trash pulls in WoW they hated the most....

April Fools’ Day 2017: Hijinks across the MMOverse

Bree Royce - 31
If you don't like tricks and jokes, just stop reading right now, turn the lights off, and go climb back into bed. Nothing on...
This isn't how it had to be.

Perfect Ten: More terminology the MMORPG genre needs

Eliot Lefebvre - 40
Many moons ago (so, a few months), I wrote a column about terminology that we need for the MMO genre. This made our Editor-in-Chief...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most stable MMORPG (besides WoW) right now?

Bree Royce - 71
Massively OP reader Gail made an interesting observation in one of the City of Heroes Master x Master drama threads about what she called "corn...
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